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Originally Posted by racer69
One driver racing for that length of time is no problem (unless they are extremely unfit)
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It's not driver fitness or even car reliability that is the issue here, it's TV. Endurance type events may have works 20 years ago but in today's TV-friendly world it's a non-starter.
The DTM in particular lives and dies by TV coverage, and there's no way a four hour event would get the sort of mainstream coverage the DTM demands.
Look at the FIA GT Championship, by definition an endurance based series, but a few years ago even they were faced with reducing races from 3 to 2 hours to keep the TV stations happy.